{{Short description|English nobleman}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2021}} [[File:Coat of arms of Sir Edward Stanley, 1st Baron Monteagle, KG.png|thumb|243px|Arms of Sir Edward Stanley, 1st Baron Monteagle, KG]] '''Edward Stanley, 1st Baron Monteagle''' <small>[[Order of the Garter|KG]]</small> (1460?–1523) was an English soldier who became a peer and [[Knight of the Garter]]. He is known for his deeds at the [[Battle of Flodden]].
==Life==
Born about 1460, he was fifth son of [[Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby]], by his first wife Eleanor, daughter of [[Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury]]. He was knighted during the reign of Edward IV by [[Richard III of England|Richard, Duke of Gloucester]] on 24 August 1482 at the [[capture of Berwick (1482)|capture of Berwick upon Tweed]].<ref>Metcalfe, Walter Charles, ed., ''Book of Knights Banneret, Knights of the Bath etc., IV Henry VI to 1660'', London (1885), p.7</ref> On 17 April 1483 he was one of the pall-bearers at Edward IV's funeral. His father's marriage with [[Henry of Richmond]]'s mother and services at the [[battle of Bosworth]] gained Henry's favour for the family, when he became King Henry VII.
Edward became [[High Sheriff of Lancashire]] for life in the autumn of 1485; on 15 October he was directed to provide against Scottish attacks, and on 1 December he was granted the office of keeper of New Park, [[Langley, Lancashire|Langley]]; he also became [[knight of the body]] to the king. On 4 March 1488–9 he was granted the manors of Farleton in [[Lonsdale, Farleton|Lonsdale]], Farleton in [[Westmorland|Westmoreland]], and Brierley in [[Yorkshire]].
In 1511 he served as [[commissioner of array]] in Yorkshire and Westmoreland, and in 1513 was prominent in the [[battle of Flodden]]. Edward was paid £4220 for bringing his retinue and their wages during the Flodden campaign.<ref>J. Mackie, 'The English Army at Flodden', ''Miscellany of the Scottish History Society, VIII'' (Edinburgh 1951), 79</ref> Popular ballads represent the English army as begging the [[Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk|Earl of Surrey]] to put Stanley in command of the van; Surrey, out of jealousy, placed him in the rear, where nevertheless he distinguished himself, forcing the Scots to evacuate their position of vantage on the hill, and killing [[James IV of Scotland]] with his own hand (his name occurs in a line of [[Walter Scott]]'s ''[[Marmion (poem)|Marmion]]'': 'Charge, Chester, charge—on, Stanley, on'). These details receive no confirmation from the official version; but [[Thomas Ruthall]], [[bishop of Durham]], reported that Stanley behaved well, and recommended his elevation to the peerage for his services. On 8 May 1514 he was installed Knight of the Garter.
Six days later he is said to have landed at Calais with [[Sir Thomas Lovell]], and fought the French. On 23 November 1514 he was summoned to the House of Lords as Baron Monteagle. He was present at the [[Field of the Cloth of Gold]] in June 1520. He died on 6 April 1523, and was buried at [[Hornby, Lancashire]] where the family owned [[Hornby Castle, Lancashire|Hornby Castle]]. There he had set up a religious foundation in commemoration of his success at Flodden.
==Family==
Monteagle firstly married Anne Harrington, daughter of Sir John Harrington, by whom he had no issue
He married secondly, Elizabeth Vaughan, daughter of Sir Thomas Vaughan of [[Tretower]], [[Brecknockshire]], and widow of [[John Grey, 8th Baron Grey de Wilton]], by whom he had: *[[Thomas Stanley, 2nd Baron Monteagle]], who succeeded to the peerage and died in 1560 **[[William Stanley, 3rd Baron Monteagle]], died without male issue in 1581, leaving a daughter Elizabeth who married [[Edward Parker, 12th Baron Morley]], and was the mother of [[William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle|William Parker]], who succeeded as 4th Baron Monteagle and 13th Baron Morley. [[Thomas Stanley (bishop)|Thomas Stanley, Bishop of Sodor and Mann]] during the [[English Reformation]] claimed he was Edward's bastard son. He probably died in office in 1568.<ref name="oxford">Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 2004.</ref>
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